Mangaluru, Mar 22: A local court has sentenced a notorious rowdy-sheeter to life imprisonment for killing a female bank employee after befriending her in Mangaluru nearly four years ago.
24-year-old Anjana, a native of Kerala was a probationary officer of Syndicate Bank at its Katipalla branch, here. She was staying along with her mother in the city.
In fact Mahesh, a native of Gunada in Khed taluk of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, was undergoing a life sentence in Nasik prison for murder in Mulund police station limits was released from the prison on 15 days parole on June 3, 2011. However, he jumped the parole and reached Karnataka.
In Mangaluru Mahesh had got a job a security supervisor at Hotel Poonja International and then worked at a prominent mall, where he befriended Anjana. On April 17, he called her to his room in the evening.
Prascilla, the house owner rushed to the room hearing Anjana's cry for help and found her on the floor with a rope around the neck. The chargesheet said Prascilla and her husband Jonsy took Anjana to a private hospital and then to Wenlock Hospital where she died in the early hours of April 18. The Urwa police arrested Mahesh at Udupi railway station on June 24, 2013 when he was trying to leave the city.
Prosecutor Harishchandra Udiawar examined 28 witnesses including Prascilla and her husband Jonsy, who were the last to see the two enter the room on April 17. Convicting him for murder, judge sentenced Mahesh to life imprisonment and directed him to pay fine of Rs 10,000.
The judge while directing the prison officials to keep him in solitary confinement for three months said sentence period in the present case will commence after completion of his earlier sentence. The judge directed the District Legal Services Authority to determine and pay compensation to the dependants of Anjana.
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